Advanced Practice Provider - Employee Health Services (F/T, Days)

Albany Medical Center•Albany, NY

53d•Onsite

About The Position

Employee Health Services - APP POSITION SUMMARY: The Health Service Advanced Practice Provider (APP) diagnoses and treats human responses to actual or potential health problems. The APP helps to fulfill the mission of supporting AMC's obligations to governing agencies such as the NYS DOH, O.S.H.A., the Worker's Compensation division of the NYS DOL, J.C.A.H.O., and the Center's Infection Control, Environmental Health and Safety, and Hazardous Substance Medical Surveillance programs. The APP has the responsibility for the clinical and patient care duties inherent in the implementation of these programs. The APP is expected to collaborate with the entire EHS team in order to provide timely, customer focused service. The APP assumes the responsibility for patient care within the scope of his/her license, and the administrative duties inherent in this position. The APP works independently and with a high degree of responsibility for the implementation of organizational plans. Organizationally, the APP reports to the EHS Manager and practices under the supervision of the EHS Medical Director.

Requirements

Must hold current New York State registration as APP.
BLS certification.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules and procedure manuals.
Ability to document patient care on established forms.
Ability to communicate cooperatively and effectively to patients, family members, employees and others.
Ability to listen well, to take direction and to engage in interactive dialogues with others.
Ability to seek out the input of others to achieve consensus.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
Ability to be honest, to be punctual, and to perform the job in adherence to the highest standards of ethical conduct as defined by AMC and the tenets of the profession.
Ability to implement organizational plans, and the mandates of governing agencies.
Ability to be accurate in such matters as record-keeping, and to use good judgment when performing the functions of the job or when interacting with others.
Ability to accept direction, carry out orders, to work cooperatively with others and to avoid the creation of unnecessary conflict.
Ability to adhere to AMC's policies, procedures and practices, and to utilize AMC's problem-solving processes for resolving grievances or disagreements.
Ability to anticipate and resolve potential problems to ensure the continuity of appropriate patient care.
Ability to identify problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to improve job performance through continuing education.

Responsibilities

Clinical decision making to validate the appropriateness of treatment within the scope of Employee Health Service practice.
Prompt attention to the identification and response to critical patient needs.
Post-offer physical exams and review of history.
Post-offer clearance
Annual physical exams and review of history for clearance.
Provide acute care for illness and injury to the extent that it can be done with limited ancillary testing.
Fitness for duty evaluations
Compliance with Infection Control policies.
Collaboration with PMD's to expedite HCW evaluations and follow-up.
Understanding and implementation of the Bloodborne pathogen exposure protocol to include PEP regimens.
Pre and post test HIV counseling for HCW and Source patients
Work related injury evaluation to include incident reports and collaboration with Risk Management
Worksite visits as needed
Return-to-work evaluations
HCW counseling regarding positive Tb skin tests, Quantiferon testing, and HIV Latex evaluations
Understanding and implementation of special programs.
Evaluation and interpretation of pulmonary function tests and audiograms
Collaboration with EH&S, Risk Management, And the HCW's PMD and Supervisor to improve the HCW's response to their work environment in the event of workplace concerns.
Self-assessment reviews
Prepare concise, clear, and legible documentation of each patient encounter.
Timely completion of all charts and electronic health record.
Review and interpretation of outside medical records as supplied by the patient through various mediums.
Review, interpretation, documentation, and follow up of lab variances.
Documentation and follow-up of all Latex allergic HCW with yearly evaluation.
Maintain APP office in a neat and organized manner.
Collaborate with Epidemiology, HIV Medicine, Environmental Health and Safety, Allergy, and Risk Management when needed
Assist the nursing staff to increase timely through-put of HCW at busy times.
Projects as assigned by the manager.